Even More Ways Info Product Creators Get Time On Their Side (Part Three)

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13. Monitor how you spend your time for just one week. Account for every hour of each day for the next seven days, just like someone who is serious about losing weight would track everything they consume. At the end of the week, review your track record. Total the hours spent in each activity related to writing or info product creation. If you honestly separate productive work time from all the other activities in your life, you may be surprised by what you discover. Spot just one or two opportunities for a small improvement in lost time and you’ll significantly improve your writing output.

14. Slash waste by turning unused minutes into productive time. Saving just a couple of minutes each day can make a huge difference over a lifetime. Think of all the ways you could improve your efficiency ever so slightly. Make it a habit. Consider the time spent by the average person standing in front of the closet trying to decide what clothes to wear, or looking for car keys that had been misplaced, or watching hours of mindless television. Your life is nothing more than a collection of minutes, project moves your forward.

15. Keep an eye on the clock. Maintain an accurate log of the time spent for each project task. This kind of track record will help you with future estimates of time requirements. Seeing how much time is actually spent on the specifics of research, organization and writing phases can be a revelation. You’ll discover how your working time unfolds and where your efficiency can be further improved.

16. Choose to use “work time” for high-output productivity. Use your work time wisely. Select those tasks that will help you finish one job after another. Get busy doing the important things for the project in front of you. Leave the planning and organizing for future projects until the end of the day, after the important daily writing related work is done. You’ll enjoy your time away from your writing much more when the hours spent at your desk are peak productivity hours.

17. Write in one hour blocks. Make these blocks part of your daily schedule. If you did nothing but productive writing for one hour each day, after just 30 days you would have a lot of material. Break each hour-long block into individual segments of 5 to 15 minutes each. Use these smaller segments to write nonstop. When you write this way, you crank out quality content quickly. Also, the more often you use this technique of assigning blocks of writing, the more accurate your time estimates become.

18. Do the difficult and necessary work first. With any info product creation, there are tasks you enjoy less tha others. When faced with a list of challenging tasks, tackle the one that seems the least appealing first. After that anything else seems so much easier and you’ll feel unbeatable for the rest of the day.